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An apartment in Amsterdam

The photography style of Anne Dokter really appeals to me and her series of an apartment in Amsterdam shows you exactly why. Of course it does help when a place like this is so inspirational and has a color palette that is almost unreal ... 

Which color pallete from all these images is your favorite? I am in love with the warm orange-reds in the sixth picture below. But the blue combined with golden brown is perfect too.  

A previous series I shared here on Bloesem from Anne is her visit to the house of the artist behind Japanese label minä perhonen.

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Tuesday's quick start: Caroline Coehorst and Lenneke Wispelwey

I hope you had a better weekend then I did... well Sunday was perfectly fine but Saturday I spend the day in bed with a terrible migraine ... meaning I couldn't go to my letterpress workshop arghhhhh ... hope soon I can try again. 

Sunday we spend almost the entire day at home trying to finnish decorating our new place. Her on my instagram feed you can see some snapshots of our new place. 

Yesterday my boy got sick home ... meaning another day gone for blogging and I am starting the Bloesem week today ... believe it is quite a good start. 

Dutch photographer Caroline Coehorst made some beautiful pictures in the studio of Lenneke Wispelwey ... you know my favorite Dutch ceramist. 

Enjoy the pictures while I am working on more posts for this week! ~irene xoxo

All images by Caroline Coehorst

Candy ♥

Just one smashing image by Imke Klee to finnish the week with. What are your plans for the weekend? I'm super excited to have my very first letterpress workshop tomorrow at The Gentleman's Press right here in Singapore. Hopefully I can share with you some results next week. Will definitely update you via my instagram.

If you haven't had time to stop by here are some quick links to my favorite posts from last week:

My friends home in Brooklyn

This short movie about Color Collision

And our homemade ricekrispies

Happy Weekend! ~Irene

.. Imke Klee

Flowers are the Trend

We all know 'Flowers' are the trend!

Slowly we are moving away from the geometric patterns and moving forward to more romantic shapes and forms. Although I LOVE everything geometric I do feel the triangles and harlequin patterns may stop ...  So I fully embrace all things flowers ... and especially if it's done so interesting and inspiring as these kaleidoscope idea by stylist Amanda Rodriguez from Australia and photographer Eric Hagman.

I discovered Amanda her work over at Est Magazine (image above by Elin Stromberg) where my eyes where drawn to the 'Hello Yellow' series. 

Flower images by Eric Hagman.

 

.. Amanda Rodriguez
.. Elin Stromberg
.. Est Magazine

Little pictures

It has become my absolute favorite social media tool ... instagram. Being a very visual person, these images give me lot's of inspiration, small sneak peeks into other people homes and fresh ideas for products.

I am going to try to at least upload three images per day ... will you join me?

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Small things in our new home

Moving to a new home is one thing but decorating the new place is another ... not easy to find a good place for all my little treasures... 

Before this vintage white serving trolley was standing in our bathroom, but here in the new apartment I thought it rather looks nice in our living room. I  decided to place some books, my moms copper vase and our Ericofon. Would be great if we could really use it again, does anyone know if this is possible...? 

All images by my, Irene Hoofs from Bloesem except for the bathroom image, which was made by Dutch photographer Marjon Hoogervorst.